ALIVE Ⅲ（2018年）
From here, the third chapter in the ALIVE series focuses on people who left their homeland after the conflict and are now living in New Zealand.

MR. MENGLY
BORN IN 1951 IN BATTAMBANG,LIVES IN SOUTH AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND.

In 1971, before the Khmer Rouge regime, Meng Ly studied literature, the humanities and medicine at the university in Phnom Penh. He could not finish his study as the Khmer Rouge took power.
During the regime, he worked in the rice fields like everyone else. He lost his parents and sister due to overwork and starvation. He felt people lived like animals or slaves.

At the end of the regime in 1979, Meng Ly escaped to 07
camp where he met his wife and her family, who had run from Kampong Cham Province. Together,they continued on to Khao I Dang camp.
In 1980, he and his wife were accepted to live in New Zealand. In the camp, Meng Ly taught English and French to refugee children to earn some money. When he knew he was about to leave the camp, he used money from his teaching job to buy this bag to keep his documents safe.
When he was leaving the camp, he moved far away from his homeland, without knowing when he would be able to return.

To remember Cambodia, he decided to buy this wooden ox-cart and this Apsara. Both were handmade by other survivors..
In 2016, his bag was stolen from his home but it was found and returned by the police a few days later.